Piano Quintet f minor op. 34

Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quintet is not only one of the mightiest works in its genre but a climax in his chamber music œuvre. This new volume adopts the definitive text from the New Complete Edition of Brahms’s Works.﻿

Reviews

This edition of Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor op. 34 is a typical example of a careful modern “Urtext” edtion in which all the available sources have been analysed and their significance in the process of composition determined. Careful detective work has shed light on the composer’s involvement in the correction of proofs, and a number of unwarranted additions and alterations that occurred in early twentieth-century editions have been rectified.[Nineteenth-Century, 2006]

This Henle edition replaces the previous Urtext edition issued in 1971. It contains a preface with historical background notes as well as a detailed description and evaluation of the manuscript sources and early printings. In the Critical Comments readers will also find an exhaustive account of Brahms’ own many changes in the compositional process.[Stringendo, 2003]